20 Celebrities You Forgot Guest-Starred on ‘Bones’

Can you believe Bones is about to start it’s 11th season this fall? The long-running Fox procedural, about highly rational forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and the go-with-your-gut FBI agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz), has claimed a lot of guest stars over the years. Even loyal viewers may have forgotten some of these!

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Cyndi Lauper

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The ‘80s pop icon played a psychic named Avalon Harmonia. She first appeared on the show’s season 5 premiere, and then reprised the role in three more episodes – the most recent one airing in March of this year.

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Zooey Deschanel

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Before she had her own show on Fox (New Girl), Zooey made a guest appearance on her big sister’s show. She played a distant cousin of Brennan with a similar anti-social personality. Booth even references the fact that they look like they could be sisters.

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Aaron Paul

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The Breaking Bad star played Stew Ellis in the season 1 episode, “The Superhero in the Alley.” He was a comic book store owner who became the prime suspect in a murder. He just can't stay out of trouble, can he?

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Eric Stonestreet

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It may seem like he was born to play Cam on Modern Family, but he did have roles before that. Eric had a small part as a cop on the season 2 episode “The Boneless Bride in the River.” Nice mustache.

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Michael B. Jordan

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Michael B. Jordan played the boyfriend of Cam’s daughter in the fifth season episode, “The Plain in the Prodigy.”

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Michael Cudlitz

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In the third season episode “Dead in the Saddle,” The Walking Dead star played a man named Lucky who ran a lodge for people into “pony play.” That is, sexual role play where people pretend to be horses and riders. One of the show’s weirder murder cases, to be sure.

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Stewie Griffin

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The award for weirdest guest appearance ever goes to Stewie Griffin from Family Guy. Booth develops a brain tumor and starts hallucinating in the season 4 episode, “The Critic in the Cabernet.” Those hallucinations include visions of Stewie, for some reason.

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Brendan Fehr

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The former Roswell star played Booth’s younger brother, Jared, in a handful of episodes in seasons 4 and 5.

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Stephen Fry

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The British actor played Booth’s psychiatrist, Dr. Gordon Wyatt, in season 2, 4 and 5. At first Booth is skeptical of him, but they soon become friends. In season 5, he recognized what the audience knew all along – that Booth was in love with Brennan – and encouraged Booth to pursue those feelings.

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Billy F. Gibbons

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In another random casting choice, ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons plays the father of Angela Montenegro. He plays a fictionalized version of himself and at one point we find out that Angela’s middle name is “Pearly Gates,” the name of Gibbons’ guitar.

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Heavy D

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Before he sadly passed away in 2011, rapper Heavy D guest-starred in the first season episode “The Man in the Fallout Shelter.” He played Sid Shapiro, the owner of Booth’s favorite Chinese restaurant, Wong Fu’s.

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Tina Majorino

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She'll always be Mac from Veronica Mars to us! The actress played FBI Agent Genevieve "Genny" Shaw, who appeared in seasons 6 and 7 to work on cases with Booth.

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Katheryn Winnick

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We basically tried to forget she was on Bones, because she played Booth's old friend Hannah, whom he met in Iraq. She appears season 6.

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Freddie Prinze Jr.

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The husband of Sarah Michelle Gellar – who starred with David Boreanaz on Buffy the Vampire Slayer – played Danny Beck, a covert CIA agent and Booth’s old Army pal. He showed up for two episodes in season 9.

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Sam Trammell

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Before he was Sam on True Blood, Sam Trammell played a murderer on Bones. Booth and Brennan figure out that he killed his girlfriend in the 2005 pilot episode.

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Morris Chestnut

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In the season 6 premiere “The Man in the Wall,” Morris played FBI agent Ronald Oakes who was working undercover for a drug-dealing club owner.

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Rachelle Lefevre

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Twilight’s Rachelle Lefevre appeared in the season 1 episode, “The Man on Death Row,” as Amy Morton, the lawyer of a death row inmate.

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Rider Strong

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Boy Meets World star Rider Strong joined the Bones cast for the fifth season episode “Mummy in the Maze.” He played Gregg, a creepy fun house worker accused of murder. P.S. - He didn’t do it.

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Penny Marshall

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The actress/director played herself in the first season episode, “The Woman at the Airport.” The episode was set in Los Angeles, so of course they’d have to run into someone famous.

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Taylor Kinney

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The future Mr. Lady Gaga played Jimmy Fields – a steroid-using college basketball player - in the season three episode, “Player Under Pressure.”